Word: pslmã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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Still, PSLM faces the most opposition not from an angry president, but from their annoyed peers. Their tactics are dismissed as childish grandstanding. Compromise and deliberation, that’s how Harvard students want conflicts resolved. Unfortunately, it is the Harvard students who dismiss PSLM??s actions out of hand who are being childish, and it is they who are displaying a lack of deliberation...
There are only two good reasons not to join in the PSLM??s cause. The first is because you disagree with their goal—the living wage. The second is because you disagree with their methods. You wish conflicts could be settled at boardroom tables or around dining hall tables. But when one group (students and low-paid workers) have so little power, and the other (the Corporation) has so much, there is no real discourse...
...PSLM??s occupation of Mass. Hall is the organization’s first foray into a new breed of radical activism—a newer, sleeker, more media-savvy form of protest first seen in Seattle and Washington...
...PSLM??s tactics are beginning to alienate some fellow students, particularly first-years in surrounding Yard dorms and some of the 24 students living upstairs from the occupied portion of Mass. Hall...
...We’re expecting stiff resistance from the University,” Offner said. She said the sit-in represents a necessary escalation in PSLM??s strategy...